conclusion we believed that the nonspecific clinical and laboratory finding of the present case and also the rarity of disease in our area especially in immunocompetent patients made his diagnosis confounding. patient we report an immunocompetent 43 years old iranian man who was in excellent health status until 3 weeksbefore hospitalization when he developed headache. he experienced a 5-week de...

intracranial aspergilloma is extremely rare. the diagnosis and treatment of invasive cns aspergillosis is very difficult. early diagnosis is important for a successful treatment. here, we report a case of intracranial aspergilloma in an 11-year-old boy in 2013. good outcome was achieved by treatment with a combination of neurosurgical resection and antifungal administration, which we suggest is...

conclusions combination therapy with surgical excision has a synergistic effect and appears to be the best treatment for extended lesions. however, new potent antibacterial drugs may help to improve the management of such infections when there are sufficient data on their in vitro activity. introduction nocardia species are described as opportunistic pathogens that mainly cause pulmonary nocard...

introduction gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis is an emerging infection, with fewer than 80 cases reported in the english literature. case presentation also, a few cases of gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis, accompanied by liver involvement as part of a disseminated disease, have been reported. conclusions this is the first case report of an isolated liver involvement of this fungal infecti...

Aspergillosis may complicate the course of a patient in an immunocompromised state. However, Aspergillus infection is rarely encountered in an immunocompetent host. We present an extremely rare case of Aspergillus chest wall involvement associated with extensive mediastinal lymphadenopathy in an immunocompetent host. A chest wall lesion was the initial indication of underlying nodal disease. We...

Introduction: In HIV-associated tuberculosis cases, identifying nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) from clinical samples has become essential regarding patients’ treatment and prognosis. This study aims to determine the prevalence of different Mycobacteria species from immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with suspected tuberculosis attending a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India....

background and purpose: fusariosis is a fungal infection often involving the skin. various species can cause local, focally invasive, or disseminated infections. the routes of entry for fusarium species include the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, toe nails, trauma to the skin, and indwelling central venous catheter. case report: herein, we present the case of a 35-year-old woman pres...

background: orbital mucormycosis caused by zygomycetes is a rare and fatal infection that generally affects the patients who  are  immunocompromised.  despite  antifungal  therapy  and  aggressive  surgical  intervention,  mucormycosis  can cause serious and rapidly fatal infections if delayed diagnosis or therapeutic management occurs. here, we report orbital mucormycosis in a healthy boy, wit...

INTRODUCTION The distribution of infection by Histoplasma capsulatum in Brazil is heterogeneous, and the number of cases affecting immunocompetent individuals is relatively small. This study reports the epidemiological and clinical data regarding histoplasmosis in non-immunosuppressed individuals. METHODS The study included only the immunocompetent patients with histoplasmosis who were diagno...